City firms plan to move 10,500 jobs out of the U.K. on "day one" of Brexit, with Dublin and Frankfurt the financial centres most likely to benefit from the U.K.’s departure from the EU.

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday instructing his deputies to devise "a strategy to reduce the Nation’s reliance on critical minerals" that are largely imported and used to produce everything from smartphones to weaponry.

Children as young as eight miss school and toil in hazardous conditions to make shoes for the global market in Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal, campaigners said, calling on shoe brands to work with the local government to clean up their supply chains.

The French Ministry for the Economy is taking Amazon to court, accusing the e-commerce giant of imposing unfair contracts on suppliers.

International Data Corporation (IDC) surveyed the global manufacturing landscape for its new report, "IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Manufacturing Predictions 2018." The global market intelligence firm examined ecosystems and experiences, greater intelligence in operational assets and processes, data capitalization, the convergence of information technology (IT) and operations.

As Americans gather around their Christmas tree, few think about the forgotten workers of the holiday season: the low-wage Latinos who toil in the fields cutting down trees and facing abuse, injury — and retaliation for speaking out.